What is always intriguing to me is the usual absence from the story of Mr. Pankhurst. He was in fact a very prominent Barrister and known locally as "The Red Doctor". As he was very active in radical politics being one of the founders of the Labour Party.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pankhurst
Richard was 24 years older than his wife and during his lifetime sufficiently wealthy to have butlers and nanny so his young wife could join in with his political campaigning. I suppose it doesn't fit in with the feminist narrative that their heroine began her political campaigning as the young and impressionable wife of a much older man already campaigning for women's rights long before he married his young acolyte. The Pankhursts are local celebrities here in Manchester with a statue to Emmaline. But a bit of delving into local history reveals some intriguing information. For instance the campaigning for the War (WW1) by Emmaline and one of her daughters and for men to do their duty (white feather) though Sylvia the communist daughter opposed both. Strangely Emmaline also opposed the ending of the "property qualification" so that only women of substance(or whose father or husband's substance) voted. Given her comparatively humble beginings and her husbands politics she was also reputed to be a terrible snob locally.
What is always intriguing to me is the usual absence from the story of Mr. Pankhurst. He was in fact a very prominent Barrister and known locally as "The Red Doctor". As he was very active in radical politics being one of the founders of the Labour Party.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pankhurst
Richard was 24 years older than his wife and during his lifetime sufficiently wealthy to have butlers and nanny so his young wife could join in with his political campaigning. I suppose it doesn't fit in with the feminist narrative that their heroine began her political campaigning as the young and impressionable wife of a much older man already campaigning for women's rights long before he married his young acolyte. The Pankhursts are local celebrities here in Manchester with a statue to Emmaline. But a bit of delving into local history reveals some intriguing information. For instance the campaigning for the War (WW1) by Emmaline and one of her daughters and for men to do their duty (white feather) though Sylvia the communist daughter opposed both. Strangely Emmaline also opposed the ending of the "property qualification" so that only women of substance(or whose father or husband's substance) voted. Given her comparatively humble beginings and her husbands politics she was also reputed to be a terrible snob locally.
Which feeds into a major point I always make: fEMINISTS come from privilage